WW Philly '07: Wonder Girl First Details

As Amazons Attacks winds down this fall, a key member of the Wonder Woman, Teen Titans and Young Justice franchises will be spinning off into her own mini-series.

Today, at its afternoon WizardWorld Philly panel, DC Comics announced that Wonder Girl would get her own six issue mini-series - Wonder Girl: Chammpion. Champion will ship this fall, with J. Torres scheduled to write and Sanford Greene on art.

IGN Comics: Can you give us a little background on your Wonder Girl mini-series, how it came about, and why it's necessary?

J. Torres: Well the series is called Wonder Girl: Champion, and it's a six-issue miniseries. It basically came about as I was developing something else for DC, and this kind of came up and it was sort of related, so what I was pitching basically evolved into this Wonder Girl mini.

The thing about Wonder Girl is that in the last year she's really gone through a lot of stuff. You know, with Superboy dying, and Amazons Attack, and the stuff with the Titans, and Donna and bla bla bla - it goes on and on. If you think about it, she's been featured in a lot of different stories and a lot of different books that aren't her own, so there are a lot of stories there. But because she's not necessarily the star of those books or the main focus, we haven't been able to tie-up all the loose ends or give her all the attention needed to tell her story.

With Wonder Girl: Champion, we kind of do that and bring it all together. You see the consequences of Amazons Attack, Cassie dealing with the loss of Connor, how she's sort of in a transition with the Titans that Sean McKeever's doing, and there's a little bit of Countdown stuff in there too. It all gets tied together. And I think she kind of deserves her own book.

If you think about it, out of the new Titans lineup, you've got Blue Beetle, Supergirl and Robin, and they've all got their own books. And I don't know, I think Cassie has probably been around the longest - I don't know the dates, so maybe Tim Drake has been around longer - but she's been around a long time. So if all these characters can have their own book, why not Wonder Girl?

IGN Comics: Can you tell us a little bit about the plot?

J. Torres: We kind of spin off from Amazons Attack, and we see how Cassie kind of has to clean up after the Amazons and what happened in Washington. And she's kind of pissed about it, because it seems like nobody else either seems to care as much as she does or feels as much responsibility to clean up the aftermath of the Amazons.

So she goes around cleaning and rounding up all the beasts that we've seen that were involved in the battles, and she's kind of pissed off about nobody helping her. But at the same time, she's kind of taking it upon herself and not letting anybody help her. That's how the story starts, and as we progress, we're going to get more and more into the fact that she's a demigod. She's the daughter of Zeus and the champion of Ares, with all these powers - what does that mean? She hasn't really addressed that as much as I think she should have, or other books should have, so we're getting a chance to explore that. What the hell does that mean? She's the champion of Ares - so what? What does that mean? What are her duties, her responsibilities? She's a god of war, is she supposed to be there to wage war, to be a war monger, to be a peacemaker, to end war what is it?

At the same time, she's got issues with Wonder Woman and the Titans she has to work through. And to complicate matters, here comes Hercules, who is essentially her half-brother. He comes in and says to her, "you're better than these mortals. Why don't you do something about your lineage and background?" So we get into that, and we tie into Countdown, which I can't talk too much about, but I will see it involves more gods.

Hopefully by the end of it, we resolve some of Cassie's issues and she battles the demons she's been carrying since Connor's death and the 52 stuff. And when she comes out of it, hopefully she has a new direction as Wonder Girl.